How To Disable On-Demand CPU Scaling on Linux

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Do you know that Linux automatically scales CPU utilization depending on processing requirements? This reduces power consumption and heat. However there are situations when CPU scaling monitor cannot properly identify CPU requirements. In such cases you may want to manually stop cpu speed daemon and restart it later again if required. Here are the required commands:

How to disable on-demand cpu scaling on Linux
/sbin/service cpuspeed stop

How to (re) enable on-demand cpu scaling on Linux
/sbin/service cpuspeed start
Filed under: Fedora 7, Fedora Core 6, How To, Linux, Linux Migration, Open Source Software

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